The MexicoBlog of the CIP Americas Program monitors and analyzes international press on Mexico with a focus on the US-backed War on Drugs in Mexico and the struggle in Mexico to strengthen the rule of law, justice and protection of human rights. Relevant political developments in both countries are also covered.

Sep 11, 2011

Movement for Peace with Justice: Movement to end Mexican drug war seeks momentum

thestar.com: "MEXICO CITY—The struggle for peace and justice continues in Mexico, poet Javier Sicilia told his supporters in the city’s main square Friday. Sicilia, leader of the Mexican Movement for Peace and Justice, entered Zocalo square to shouts of “the fight continues.”

His movement of around 600 people has been travelling through some of the country’s most violent states to demand an end to Mexico’s war on drugs which has cost an estimated 45,000 lives since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006."